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Linebacker C.J. Johnson from Philadelphia (Miss.) High School has de-committed from Mississippi State.
Johnson made the decision after learning of defensive coordinator Manny Diaz's decision to leave for Texas.
"It started off that Mark Hudspeth was recruiting me," Johnson told Rivals.com, "and he left and went to Louisiana-Lafayette, and then Coach Diaz left and went to Texas, and so it kind of got me thinking about some things and I don't feel as comfortable as I did."
Mississippi State will remain in the running for Johnson, who will play in Saturday's U.S. Army All-Amercian Bowl in San Antonio, Texas. Johnson told Rivals he also plans to consider LSU and Ole Miss.
"When I get home, it's something I just want to talk about with my mom," Johnson said. "I'm confident coach (Dan) Mullen is going to bring good people in, and hopefully I'll be able to make a decision.
"It's not something I'm going to drag out until signing day. I don't want to come to a decision, and then right before signing day other things come up. It's definitely something I'm going to sit down and talk to my mom about, and then make a final decision."
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FRANKLIN, Tenn. - Police call them summer crimes of opportunity, home burglaries while homeowners are outside working in the yard. It already happened in a Williamson County neighborhood.
Burglary victim Judith Hanson said she had learned a lesson.
"Unbelievable. I can't believe that just happened to me," said Hanson. "I saw her in the house. I was on a ladder and I thought I heard the door bell ring."
A couple of weeks ago, Hanson was on the back patio cleaning out the gutters on her house.
At first Hanson thought her son returned home from college and the woman was his girlfriend, but her dog would not stop barking.
"A few minutes after listening to him bark I came down off the ladder far enough so I could see in the house, and I saw someone coming from my bedroom," said Hanson.
Hanson did not know the woman. She got off the ladder to go inside, but it was too late. The thief got away.
"When I went back in and I'm still thinking what was that person doing in my house the light finally goes off and my purse is on the counter. I look in my purse - the check book is gone, wallet is gone and a ring I laid next to the purse was gone," said Hanson.
After the burglary the homeowners association put out flyers warning homeowners about what had happened and telling them the suspect had been apprehended.
Hanson's neighbor Alan Gaus got the flyer and decided to make some changes.
"Since then I've become more aware of it. When I'm outside mowing or outside in the backyard I lock the interior door from the garage into the house," said Gaus.
Police arrested the woman in this case two days later. She was charged with aggravated burglary and fraudulent use of a credit card.
People who are driving around looking for opportunities will go elsewhere and look if you make yourself a harder target. Things like keeping your garage door down and keeping your doors locked when you're at home working in your yard out of sight of that door are the best ways you can prevent becoming a victim from something like this," said Charles Warner with the Franklin police department.


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Baal, also rendered Baʿal (Biblical Hebrew בַּעַל, pronounced [ˈbaʕal]), is a North-West Semitic title and honorific meaning "master" or "lord"[1] that is used for various gods who were patrons of cities in the Levant and Asia Minor, cognate to Akkadian Bēlu. A Baalist or Baalite means a worshipper of Baal.
"Baʿal" may refer to any god and even to human officials. In some texts it is used for Hadad, a god of the rain, thunder, fertility and agriculture, and the lord of Heaven. Since only priests were allowed to utter his divine name, Hadad, Ba'al was commonly used. Nevertheless, few if any Biblical uses of "Baʿal" refer to Hadad, the lord over the assembly of gods on the holy mount of Heaven; most refer to a variety of local spirit-deities worshipped as cult images, each called baʿal and regarded in the Hebrew Bible in that context as a "false god".
- 1 Etymology
- 2 Deities called Baʿal and Baʿalath
- 3 Baʿal as a divine title in Israel and Judah
- 4 Multiple Baʿals and ʿAshtarts
- 5 Baʿal Zebûb
- 6 In Islam
- 7 Milton and Christian demonology
- 8 See also
- 9 Notes
- 10 External links
|Deities of the ancient Near East
|Religions of the ancient Near East
Baʿal (bet-ayin-lamedh) is a Semitic word signifying "The Lord, master, owner (male), keeper, husband", which became the usual designation of the great weather-god of the Western Semites.[2] Cognates include Standard Hebrew (Bet-Ayin-Lamed); בַּעַל / בָּעַל, Báʿal, Akkadian Bēl and Arabic بعل. In Hebrew, the word ba'al means "husband" or "owner", and is related to a verb meaning to take possession of, for a man, to consummate a marriage. The word "ba'al" is also used in many Hebrew phrases, denoting both concrete ownership as well as possession of different qualities in one's personality. The feminine form is Baʿalah (Hebrew בַּעֲלָה Baʕalah, Arabic بعلـة baʿalah) signifying "lady, mistress, owner (female), wife".[3]
The words themselves had no exclusively religious connotation; they are honorific titles for heads of households or master craftsmen, but not for royalty. The meaning of "lord" as a member of royalty or nobility is more accurately translated as Adon in Semitic.
In Hebrew the basic term for a homeowner is "ba'al ha-bayith" with the connotation of a middle-class, bourgeois townsperson in traditional Jewish texts and in the Yiddish language (pronounced "baalabus" in Yiddish, pl. "baalei-batim"). A feminine version of the term in Hebrew, "ba'alat ha-bayith", means "the woman of the house" and traditionally had the connotation of a strong, even dominant woman who maintains the household in an effective and result-oriented manner.
In modern Levantine Arabic, the word báʿal serves as an adjective describing farming that relies only on rainwater as a source of irrigation. Probably it is the last remnant of the sense of Baal the god in the minds of the people of the region. In the Amharic language, the Semitic word for "owner" or "husband, spouse" survives with the spelling bal.
Deities called Baʿal and Baʿalath[edit]
Because more than one god bore the title "Baʿal" and more than one goddess bore the title "Baʿalat" or "Baʿalah," only the context of a text can indicate which Baʿal (Lord) or Baʿalath (Lady) a particular inscription or text is speaking of.
Hadad in Ugarit[edit]
In the Bronze Age, Hadad (or Haddad or Adad) was especially likely to be called Baʿal; however, Hadad was far from the only god to have that title.[dubious ]
In the Canaanite pantheon as attested in Ugaritic sources, Hadad was the son of El, who had once been the primary god of the Canaanite pantheon. El and Baʿal are often associated with the bull in Ugaritic texts, as a symbol both of strength and fertility.[4]
Prior to the discovery of the Ugaritic texts it was supposed that 'the Baals' referred to distinct and local Canaanite deities. However, according to John Day, in Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan, these texts have revealed that these are simply local manifestations of one great, cosmic deity named Hadad.[5]
Of special interest is the designation ʿAliy(ʿly) which is twice applied to Baal in the Ugaritic poem Legend of Keret (also known as 'krt poem') among other references made to Ba'al:
To the earth Baal rained,
To the field rained ʿAliy.
Sweet to the earth was Baal's rain
To the field the rain of ʿAliy.
Before the discovery and recognition of this name in Ugaritic, H.S. Nyberg had restored it in Deuteronomy 33:12; I Samuel 2:10; II Samuel 23:1; Isaiah 59:18, 63:7; and Hosea 7:16. Following the verification of the authenticity and antiquity of this divine name in Ugaritic, additional instances have been claimed as occurring in the Psalter and also in Job.[6]
The worship of Ba'al in Syria-Palestine was bound to the economy of the land which depends on the regularity and adequacy of the rains, unlike Egypt and Mesopotamia, which depend on irrigation. Anxiety about the rainfall was a continuing concern of the inhabitants which gave rise to rites to ensure the coming of the rains. Thus the basis of the Ba'al cult was the utter dependence of life on the rains which were regarded as Baal's bounty.[7] In that respect, Ba'al can be considered a rain god.
Baʿal of Tyre[edit]
Melqart is the son of El in the Phoenician triad of worship.[citation needed] He was the god of Tyre and was often called the Baʿal of Tyre.[citation needed] 1 Kings 16:31 relates that Ahab, king of Israel, married Jezebel, daughter of Ethba'al, king of the Sidonians, and then served habba'al ('the Baʿal'.) The cult of this god was prominent in Israel until the reign of Jehu, who - according to the biblical account in 2 Kings - put an end to it: "And they brought out the pillars (massebahs) of the house of the Baʿal and burned them. And they pulled down the pillar (massebah) of the Baʿal and pulled down the house of the Baʿal and turned it into a latrine until this day." (2 Kings 10:26-27)
Some scholars[who?] claim it is uncertain whether "Baʿal" the Lord in Kings 10:26 refers to Melqart. They point out that Hadad was also worshiped in Tyre. This point of view ignores the possibility that Hadad and Melqart are the same god with different names because of different languages and cultures, Hadad being Canaanite and Melqart being Phoenician. In favor of the latter interpretation, both Hadad and Melqart are described as the son of El, both carrying the same secondary position in the pantheons of each culture.
Josephus (Antiquities 8.13.1) states clearly that Jezebel "built a temple to the god of the Tyrians, which they call Belus" which certainly refers to the Baal of Tyre, or Melqart.
Ahab son of Omri did more evil in the eyes of the Lord than any of those before him. He not only considered it trivial to commit the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, but he also married Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal and worship him. He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he built in Samaria. Ahab also made an Asherah (pole) and did more to provoke the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger than did all the kings of Israel before him.[8]
Even though King Ahab named his sons Ahaziah ("Yahweh holds") and Jehoram ("Yahweh is high") he did not worship Yahweh like some believe. In 1 Kings 21 Ahab calls the Lords anointed prophet Elijah "my enemy" for every word from the Lord's prophets spoke against the practices of Ahab and Jezebel.
Baʿal of Carthage[edit]
The worship of Baʿal Hammon flourished in the Phoenician colony of Carthage. Baʿal Hammon was the supreme god of the Carthaginians, and is believed that this supremacy dates back to the 5th century BC, apparently after a breaking off of relationships between Carthage and Tyre at the time of the Punic defeat in Himera.[9] He is generally identified by modern scholars either with the Northwest Semitic god El or with Dagon,[10] and generally identified by the Greeks, by interpretatio Graeca with Greek Cronus and similarly by the Romans with Saturn.
The meaning of Hammon or Hamon is unclear. In the 19th century when Ernest Renan excavated the ruins of Hammon (Ḥammon), the modern Umm al-'Awamid between Tyre and Acre, he found two Phoenician inscriptions dedicated to El-Hammon. Since El was normally identified with Cronus and Ba'al Hammon was also identified with Cronus, it seemed possible they could be equated. More often a connection with Hebrew/Phoenician ḥammān 'brazier' has been proposed, in the sense of "Baal (lord) of the brazier". He has been therefore identified with a solar deity.[11] Frank Moore Cross argued for a connection to Khamōn, the Ugaritic and Akkadian name for Mount Amanus, the great mountain separating Syria from Cilicia based on the occurrence of an Ugaritic description of El as the one of the Mountain Haman.
Classical sources relate how the Carthaginians burned their children as offerings to Baʿal Hammon. From the attributes of his Roman form, African Saturn, it is possible to conclude that Hammon was a fertility god.[12] (See Moloch for a discussion of these traditions and conflicting thoughts on the matter.)
Scholars[who?] tend to see Baʿal Hammon as more or less identical with the god El, who was also generally identified with Cronus and Saturn. However, Yigael Yadin thought him to be a moon god. Edward Lipinski identifies him with the god Dagon in his Dictionnaire de la civilisation phenicienne et punique (1992: ISBN 2-503-50033-1). Inscriptions about Punic deities tend to be rather uninformative.
In Carthage and North Africa Baʿal Hammon was especially associated with the ram and was worshiped also as Baʿal Qarnaim ("Lord of Two Horns") in an open-air sanctuary at Jebel Bu Kornein ("the two-horned hill") across the bay from Carthage.
Baʿal Hammon's female cult partner was Tanit.[13] He was probably not ever identified with Baʿal Melqart, although one finds this equation in older scholarship.
Ba`alat Gebal ("Lady of Byblos") appears to have been generally identified with 'Ashtart, although Sanchuniathon distinguishes the two.
Priests of Baʿal[edit]
The Priests of Baʿal are mentioned in the Hebrew Bible numerous times, including a confrontation with the Prophet Elijah (1 Kings 18:21-40), the burning of incense symbolic of prayer (2 Kings 23:5), and rituals followed by priests adorned in special vestments (2 Kings 10:22) offering sacrifices similar to those given to honor the Hebrew God. The confrontation with the Prophet Elijah is also mentioned in the Qur'an (37:123-125)
Baʿal as a divine title in Israel and Judah[edit]
For the early Hebrews, "Baal" referred to the Lord of Israel, just as "Baal" farther north designated the Lord of Lebanon or of Ugarit.[14]
"At first the name Baʿal was used by the Jews for their God without discrimination, but as the struggle between the two religions developed, the name Baʿal was given up by the Israelites as a thing of shame, and even names like Jerubbaʿal were changed to Jerubbosheth: Hebrew bosheth means "shame".[15]
It was the program of Jezebel, in the 9th century, to introduce into Israel's capital city of Samaria her Phoenician cult of Baal as opposed to the worship of Yahweh that made the name anathema to the Israelites.[16] The competition between the priestly forces of Yahweh and of Baʿal in the ninth century is attested in 1 Kings 18. Elijah the prophet challenged Baal's prophets to settle the question whether it was Ba'al or Yahweh who supplied the rain. Elijah offered a sacrifice to Yahweh; Baʿal's followers did the same. According to the Hebrew Bible, Baʿal did not light his followers' sacrifice, but Yahweh sent heavenly fire to burn Elijah's sacrifice and altar to ashes, even after it had been soaked with water. Directly after that event, Elijah had the prophets of Ba'al slain and soon it begins to rain.
Since Baʿal simply means 'master', there is no obvious reason for which it could not be applied to Yahweh as well as other gods. In fact, Hebrews generally referred to Yahweh as Adonai ('my lord') in prayer.[citation needed] The judge Gideon was also called Jerubaʿal, a name which seems to mean 'Baʿal strives', though the Yahwists' explanation in Judges 6:32 is that the theophoric name was given to mock the god Baʿal, whose shrine Gideon had destroyed, the intention being to imply: "Let Baʿal strive as much as he can ... it will come to nothing."
After Gideon's death, according to Judges 8:33, the Israelites started to worship the Baʿalîm (the Baʿals) especially Baʿal Berith ("Lord of the Covenant.") A few verses later (Judges 9:4) the story turns to the citizens of Shechem, who support Abimelech's attempt to become king by giving him 70 shekels from the House of Ba'al Berith. It is hard to dissociate this Lord of the Covenant who is worshipped in Shechem from the covenant at Shechem described earlier in Joshua 24:25, in which the people agree to worship Yahweh. It is especially hard to do so when Judges 9:46 relates that all "the holders of the tower of Shechem" (kol-ba'alê midgal-šəkem) enter bêt 'ēl bərît 'the House of El Berith', that is, 'the House of God of the Covenant'. Either "Baʿal" was here a title for El, or the covenant of Shechem perhaps originally did not involve El at all, but some other god who bore the title Baʿal. Whether there were different viewpoints about Yahweh, some seeing him as an aspect of Hadad, some as an aspect of El, some with other perceptions cannot be unambiguously answered.[citation needed]
Baʿal appears in theophoric names. One also finds Eshbaʿal (one of Saul's sons) and Beʿeliada (a son of David). The last name also appears as Eliada. This might show that at some period Baʿal and El were used interchangeably; even in the same name applied to the same person. More likely a later hand has cleaned up the text. Editors did play around with some names, sometimes substituting the form bosheth 'abomination' for ba'al in names, whence the forms Ishbosheth instead of Eshbaʿal and Mephibosheth which is rendered Meribaʿal in 1 Chronicles 9:40. 1 Chronicles 12:5 mentions the name Beʿaliah (more accurately be'alyâ) meaning "Yahweh is Baʿal."
It is difficult to determine to what extent the 'false worship' which the prophets stigmatize is the worship of Yahweh under a conception and with rites, which treated him as a local nature god, or whether particular features of gods more often given the title Ba'al were consciously recognized to be distinct from Yahwism from the first. Certainly some of the Ugaritic texts and Sanchuniathon report hostility between El and Hadad, perhaps representing a cultic and religious differences reflected in Hebrew tradition also, in which Yahweh in the Tanach is firmly identified with El and might be expected to be somewhat hostile to Baʿal/Hadad and the deities of his circle. But for Jeremiah and the Deuteronomist it also appears to be monotheism against polytheism (Jeremiah 11:12):
Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go and cry to the gods to whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble. For according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem you have set up altars to the abominination, altars to burn incense to the Ba'al.
Multiple Baʿals and ʿAshtarts[edit]
One finds in the Tanakh the plural forms bə'ālîm 'Baʿals' or 'Lords' and aštārôt Ashtarts, though such plurals don't appear in Phoenician or Canaanite or independent Aramaic sources.
One theory is that the people of each territory or in each wandering clan worshipped their own Baʿal, as the chief deity of each, the source of all the gifts of nature, the mysterious god of their fathers. As the god of fertility all the produce of the soil would be his, and his adherents would bring to him their tribute of first-fruits. He would be the patron of all growth and fertility, and, by the use of analogy characteristic of early thought, this Baʿal would be the god of the productive element in its widest sense. Originating perhaps in the observation of the fertilizing effect of rains and streams upon the receptive and reproductive soil, Baʿal worship became identical with nature-worship. Joined with the Baʿals there would naturally be corresponding female figures which might be called ʿAshtarts, embodiments of 'Ashtart. Baʿal Hadad is associated with the goddess "Virgin" Anat, his sister and lover.
Through analogy and through the belief that one can control or aid the powers of nature by the practice of magic, particularly sympathetic magic, sexuality might characterize part of the cult of the Baʿals and ʿAshtarts. Post-Exilic allusions to the cult of Baʿal Pe'or suggest that orgies prevailed. On the summits of hills and mountains flourished the cult of the givers of increase, and "under every green tree" was practised the licentiousness which was held to secure abundance of crops. Human sacrifice, the burning of incense, violent and ecstatic exercises, ceremonial acts of bowing and kissing, the preparing of sacred cakes (see also Asherah), appear among the offences denounced by the post-Exilic prophets; and show that the cult of Baʿal (and ʿAshtart) included characteristic features of worship which recur in various parts of the Semitic (and non-Semitic) world, although attached to other names. But it is also possible that such rites were performed to a local Baʿal Lord and a local ʿAshtart without much concern as to whether they were the same as that of a nearby community or how they fitted into the national theology of Yahweh who had become a ruling high god of the heavens, increasingly disassociated from such things, at least in the minds of some worshippers.[citation needed]
Another theory is that the references to Baʿals and ʿAshtarts (and Asherahs) are to images or other standard symbols of these deities, statues, and icons of Baʿal Hadad, ʿAshtart, and Asherah set-up in various high places as well as those of other gods, the author listing the most prominent as types for all.[citation needed]
A reminiscence of Baʿal as a title of a local fertility god (or referring to a particular god of subterraneous water) may occur in the Talmudic Hebrew phrases field of the Baʿal and place of the Baʿal and Arabic ba'l used of land fertilised by subterraneous waters rather than by rain.
The identification of Baʿal as a sun-god in historical scholarship came to be abandoned by the end of the 19th century as it became clear that Baʿal was the title of numerous local gods and not necessarily a single deity in origin. It also became clear that the "astralizing" (association or identification with heavenly bodies) of Ancient Near Eastern deities was a late (Iron Age) development in no way connected with the origin of religion as theorized by some 19th-century schools of thought.[17]
Baʿal Zebûb[edit]
Baal Zebub (Hebrew בעל זבוב) occurs in 2 Kings 1:2–6 as the name of the Philistine god of Ekron.
But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? KJV, 1611
Ba'al Zəbûb is variously understood to mean "lord of flies",[18][19][20][21] or "lord of the (heavenly) dwelling".[22][23][24] Originally the name of a Philistine god,[25] Ba'al, meaning "Lord" in Ugaritic, was used in conjunction with a descriptive name of a specific god. Jewish scholars have interpreted the title of "Lord of Flies" as the Hebrew way of calling Ba'al a pile of dung, and comparing Ba'al followers to flies.[26][27] The Septuagint renders the name as Baalzebub (βααλζεβούβ) and as Baal muian (βααλ μυιαν, "Baal of flies"), but Symmachus the Ebionite may have reflected a tradition of its offensive ancient name when he rendered it as Beelzeboul.[28]
New Testament[edit]
Beelzebub, also Beelzebul, is also identified in the New Testament as Satan, the "prince of the demons".[29][30] In Arabic[where?] the name is retained as Ba'al dhubaab / zubaab (بعل الذباب), literally "Lord of the Flies".[citation needed] Biblical scholar Thomas Kelly Cheyne suggested that it might be a derogatory corruption of Ba'al Zəbûl, "Lord of the High Place" (i.e., Heaven) or "High Lord".[31] The word Beelzebub in rabbinical texts is a mockery of the Ba'al religion, which ancient Hebrews considered to be idol (or, false god) worship.[32][need quotation to verify]
In Islam[edit]
The word Baal appears in the Quran. The Quran (37:125) mentions that Elias (Elijah) a prophet of God was sent to his people to tell them not to worship Baal and worship one true God.
"And Elias was most surely of the messengers, he asked his people: 'do you not fear (God)?, will ye call upon Baal and forsake the best of creators, God is your Lord and the Lord of your fathers, the ancients. but they rejected him, and they will certainly be called up (for punishment), except the sincere and devoted servants of God (among them), and we left (this blessing) for him among generations (to come) in later times, peace be upon Elias."—Qur'an, Sura 37, Ayat 123-130
Milton and Christian demonology[edit]
John Milton in his epic poem Paradise Lost of 1667 describes Satan's "Legions, Angel Forms" immediately after the fall from heaven collecting themselves and gathering around their "Great Sultan" (Satan). Milton names and describes the most prominent of these whose names in heaven had been "blotted out and ras'd", but who would acquire new names "wandring ore the Earth", being worshipped by man ("Devils to adore for Deities"). In the following section, Milton refers to the plural forms of Baʿal and Astarte [Book 1, lines 419-423]:
With these came they, who from the bordring flood
Of old Euphrates to the Brook that parts
Egypt from Syrian ground, had general Names
Of Baalim and Ashtaroth, those male,
These Feminine.
The 17th Century grimoire the Goetia also contains a demon called Baal.
See also[edit]
- Adon
- Adonis
- Baal (disambiguation)
- Ba'al (Stargate)
- Ba'al Shamîm
- Baal in popular culture
- Baal Peor
- Baal Shem - 18th century folk healer and exorcist.
- Baal-zephon
- Baaltars
- Beelzebub
- Bel
- Belial
- Canaanite religion
- Crom Cruach
- El-Gabal
- Hadad
- Melqart
- Moloch
- Set
- ^ Serge Lancel, Carthage, a History, p. 194.
- ^ Encyclopedia Judaica, Ba-Blo, pg 11, Baal worship
- ^ Strong, James. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers. pp. Heb dict 22. ISBN 1-56563-777-1.
- ^ Miller, Patrick (2000).Israelite religion and Biblical theology: collected essays. Continuum International Publishing Group, p. 32. ISBN 1-84127-142-X
- ^ http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ygfwlltlRwC&pg=PA68&dq=Baal&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3SEIUb6jPKWe0QW3uYGICA&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAjgU#v=onepage&q=Baal&f=false
- ^ Encyclopedia Judaica, Second Edition, Vol 3, Ba-Blo, pg 12
- ^ jewish virtual library: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0003_0_01786.html
- ^ 1 Kings 16:30-33
- ^ Moscati, Sabatino (2001). The Phoenicians. Tauris, p. 132. ISBN 1-85043-533-2
- ^ "Carthaginian Religion by Roy Decker". About.com. Retrieved 2010-07-07.
- ^ Walbank, Frank William (1979). A Historical Commentary on Polybius, Volume 2, Clarendon Press, p. 47
- ^ Serge Lancel, Carthage, a History, p. 197.
- ^ Serge Lancel, Carthage, a History, p. 195.
- ^ Britannica Encyclopedia of World Religions Pg 121
- ^ Zondervan's Pictorial Bible Dictionary (1976) ISBN 0-310-23560-X.
- ^ Britannica Encyclopedia of World Religions Pg 121, and pg 43
- ^ In 1899, the Encyclopædia Biblica article Baal by W. Robertson Smith and George F. Moore states:
That Baal was primarily a sun-god was for a long time almost a dogma among scholars, and is still often repeated. This doctrine is connected with theories of the origin of religion which are now almost universally abandoned. The worship of the heavenly bodies is not the beginning of religion. Moreover, there was not, as this theory assumes, one god Baal, worshipped under different forms and names by the Semitic peoples, but a multitude of local Baals, each the inhabitant of his own place, the protector and benefactor of those who worshipped him there. Even in the astro-theology of the Babylonians the star of Bēl was not the sun: it was the planet Jupiter. There is no intimation in the OT that any of the Canaanite Baals were sun-gods, or that the worship of the sun (Shemesh), of which we have ample evidence, both early and late, was connected with that of the Baals ; in 2 Kings 23:5-11 the cults are treated as distinct.
- ^ "Βεελζεβούλ, ὁ indecl. (v.l. Βεελζεβούβ and Βεεζεβούλ W-S. §5, 31, cp. 27 n. 56) Beelzebul, orig. a Philistine deity; the name בַּעַל זְבוּב means Baal (lord) of flies (4 Km 1:2, 6; Sym. transcribes βεελζεβούβ; Vulgate Beelzebub; TestSol freq. Βεελζεβούλ,-βουέλ).", Arndt, W., Danker, F. W., & Bauer, W. (2000). A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (3rd ed.) (173). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- ^ "1. According to 2 Kgs 1:2–6 the name of the Philistine god of Ekron was Lord of the Flies (Heb. ba'al zeaûḇ), from whom Israel's King Ahaziah requested an oracle.", Balz, H. R., & Schneider, G. (1990-). Vol. 1: Exegetical dictionary of the New Testament (211). Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans.
- ^ "The etymology of Beelzebul has proceeded in several directions. The variant reading Beelzebub (Syriac translators and Jerome) reflects a long-standing tradition of equating Beelzebul with the Philistine deity of the city of Ekron mentioned in 2 Kgs 1:2, 3, 6, 16. Baalzebub (Heb ba˓al zĕbûb) seems to mean "lord of flies" (HALAT, 250, but cf. LXXB baal muian theon akkarōn, "Baal-Fly, god of Akkaron"; Ant 9:2, 1 theon muian).", Lewis, "Beelzebul", in Freedman, D. N. (1996). Vol. 1: The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (639). New York: Doubleday.
- ^ "On the basis zebub, 'flies', the name of the god was interpreted as 'Lord of the flies'; it was assumed that he was a god who could cause or cure diseases.", Herrmann, "Baal Zebub", in Toorn, K. v. d., Becking, B., & Horst, P. W. v. d. (1999). Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible DDD (2nd extensively rev. ed.) (154). Leiden; Boston; Grand Rapids, Mich.: Brill; Eerdmans.
- ^ "It is more probable that b'l zbl, which can mean "lord of the (heavenly) dwelling" in Ugaritic, was changed to b'l zbb to make the divine name an opprobrius epithet. The reading Beelzebul in Mt. 10:25 would then reflect the right form of the name, a wordplay on "master of the house" (Gk oikodespótēs).", McIntosh, "Baal-Zebub", in Bromiley, G. W. (1988; 2002). Vol. 1: The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Revised (381). Wm. B. Eerdmans.
- ^ "An alternative suggested by many is to connect zĕbûl with a noun meaning " (exalted) abode."", Lewis, "Beelzebul", in Freedman, D. N. (1996). Vol. 1: The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (639). New York: Doubleday.
- ^ "In contemporary Semitic speech it may have been understood as 'the master of the house'; if so, this phrase could be used in a double sense in Mt. 10:25b.", Bruce, "Baal-Zebub, Beelzebul", in Wood, D. R. W., & Marshall, I. H. (1996). New Bible dictionary (3rd ed.) (108). Leicester, England; Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press.
- ^ "For etymological reasons, Baal Zebub must be considered a Semitic god; he is taken over by the Philistine Ekronites and incorporated into their local cult.", Herrmann, "Baal Zebub", in Toorn, K. v. d., Becking, B., & Horst, P. W. v. d. (1999). Dictionary of deities and demons in the Bible DDD (2nd extensively rev. ed.) (154). Leiden; Boston; Grand Rapids, Mich.: Brill; Eerdmans.
- ^ Easton's Bible Dictionary
- ^ Jewishencyclopedia.com
- ^ Catholic Encyclopedia
- ^ "In NT Gk. beelzeboul, beezeboul (Beelzebub in TR and AV) is the prince of the demons (Mt. 12:24, 27; Mk. 3:22; Lk. 11:15, 18f.), identified with Satan (Mt. 12:26; Mk. 3:23, 26; Lk. 11:18).", Bruce, "Baal-Zebub, Beelzebul", Wood, D. R. W., & Marshall, I. H. (1996). New Bible dictionary (3rd ed.) (108). Leicester, England; Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press.
- ^ "Besides, Matt 12:24; Mark 3:22; Luke 11:15 use the apposition ἄρχων τῶν δαιμονίων 'head of the →Demons'.", Herrmann, "Baal Zebub", in Toorn, K. v. d., Becking, B., & Horst, P. W. v. d. (1999). Dictionary of deities and demons in the Bible DDD (2nd extensively rev. ed.) (154). Leiden; Boston; Grand Rapids, Mich.: Brill; Eerdmans.
- ^ Michael Wex, Born to Kvetch, St. Martin's Press, New York, 2005, ISBN 0-312-30741-1
- ^ Manfred Lurker, Books.google.com, The Routledge Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses, Devils and Demons
External links[edit]
|Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Baal.
- The Catholic Encyclopedia, entry "Baal, Baalim"
- Jewish Encyclopedia, entries "Ba'al", "Ba'al-worship", "Ba'al-Ha-bayit" etc
- Article Baal (PDF format) by W. Robertson Smith and George F. Moore in Encyclopædia Biblica, edited T. K. Cheyne and J. Sutherland Black, MacMillan: London, 1899. (Still quite accurate.)
- Bartleby: American Heritage Dictionary: Semitic roots: bcl.
- Punic images of Baal Hammon described.
- Iconography of Baal (PDF format)
- Rabbi Meir Baal Haneis
- "Baal". New International Encyclopedia. 1905.


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Cosby's two all-state candidates, Lexi Lowery (19 ppg.) and Tiffany Smelcer (18 ppg), were passed over during a recent conference meeting to pick the league's MVP. So head coach Richard Coggins administered a 73-point loss to Clinch, then hammered Hancock County 59-29 in the championship.
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Great. This store sounded like it would put up with me spending an hour trying (and retrying) on the same four pairs of New Balances.
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My little girl-Melody is 13.5 months. She has never slept through the night. I know we created a bad habit with middle of the night feedings but she is a special case when it comes to eating due to medical issues (GERD, food allergies, sinus issues, ENT issues, failure to thrive). I have gotten the go ahead from her doctors and specialists to go ahead and start to wean the middle of the night feedings as she is no longer classified as a failure to thrive and medication seems to be helping her conditions. Wahoo!
Anyway the last 3 months she awakes between 1-4 AM and will not go back to sleep unless she has a middle of the night play session ranging in time from 30 minutes to 2 hours.
I have taken her to the doctors multiple times and all I ever get: "some babies don't sleep through the night until they are 2 years old. Its perfectly normal... blah blah"
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She started daycare when she turned a year, so about 6 weeks ago. Daycare does a nap/quiet time from 11-2. My daughter usually naps 30 minutes in the time frame of 1130-130, and its her only nap of the day. She goes to sleep between 730-830 - just usually passes out after bathtime.
Any suggestions or advice on how to help her sleep through the night or to help wean the middle of the night feedings. I am hitting my wits end, I work full time 12 hours shifts (MWF) and every other Saturday and can't take much more of this, I am physically exhausted and 4 months pregnant.
Wow... first of all, I feel great sympathy because it's exhausting just reading your posts. I guess my first thought if docs say there is nothing physically wrong is to get you help more than Melody. Is there a family member or close friend you trust to possibly give you a more frequent break to get some true sleep? The middle of the night play session is something that you recognize has to end but I am also stumped at the moment. What about playing for an hour, then cutting short by about 10 minutes each subsequent time and eventually after a week or so, you have her down to a five minute play time. Does she scream after only a half hour if you put her in? Do you let her play until she collapses? Hoping someone on Strongmoms can help you better than me!
You poor thing! You must be exhausted! One thing that's helped us with our 2 year old is the toys that project the stars on the ceiling (dreamlites). After we transitioned her into a big girl bed she had trouble going to sleep because she wanted to play. The stars on the ceiling gave her something to look at and talk to, so it was kind of like having something to play with. It's easy for her to turn on by herself (just push a button on its back), so if your daughter woke up in the middle of the night she could have a play session by herself while you slept. You could also try letting her take a toy that she really likes to bed with her, again so she can play on her own while you get some sleep. (Although this can turn bad if you lose the toy--we had a mini-meltdown the other night because we couldn't find Princess Belle :) )
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Thanks for the advice. Answerdad, I have tried to call on support people but everyone I know is a flake. They say they will help and then when it comes time, they all of a sudden have different plans. It has happened so much I don't even ask anymore. Sgmitch, I have a dreamlite for her her it doesn't do anything for her. I turn it on along with her mobile and she just continues on her mission.
I hit my wits end the other day and had her daddy go in there for the first time. He told her to stop and when she didn't he gave her a spanking and put her in time out. He explained to her that these tantrums would not be rewarded. I tried this and it didn't help, but I think when daddy actually disciplined her for the first time it broke her little heart. She then fussed quietly for 15-20 minutes: then went right back to sleep. I put her to bed the next night and told her if she tantrums daddy will come in. She slept til 330 and awoke just her fer feeding which we are slowly weaning away: After her bottle she went straight to sleep. This has been the case for 3 nights now. Now I just got to figure how to completely wean the bottle!
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Academic corruptionFebruary 06,2013On the day after the Super Bowl, I got a call from Michael McAdoo, a 22-year-old defensive lineman for the winning Baltimore Ravens. I had been expecting his call for several weeks, ever since the North Carolina Court of Appeals refused to revive his lawsuit against the NCAA and the University of North Carolina, where he had played for two years before being declared permanently ineligible. Though he didnt dress for the big game hes been injured most of his short professional career McAdoo had attended the teams practices and meetings; he told me hed been too busy to call earlier.
Athletes almost never win lawsuits against the NCAA. There is, after all, no constitutional right to play college sports, and because the NCAA is a voluntary organization made up of member institutions, courts are loath to interfere, even when the rules seem unfair.
In 2008, in his first semester at North Carolina, McAdoo had asked a former tutor to help him write citations for a paper, something he was unsure about. With the due date fast approaching, the woman whom he wasnt supposed to talk to because she was no longer an official tutor essentially wrote the citations herself. Several years later, in the middle of a burgeoning scandal involving more than a dozen Carolina football players, the email exchange between McAdoo and the former tutor was unearthed, and his actions were reported to the NCAA and the schools honor court.
The honor court ruled that McAdoo should be suspended for a semester. Never one to show mercy, the NCAA went further, barring him from ever playing college football again. McAdoo sued to get reinstated, but the case was tossed. Because his college career ended prematurely, he signed with the Ravens for the professional minimum (which, at $450,000 a year, is admittedly none too shabby).
When stories like McAdoos burst into public view, the athlete is almost always cast as the villain, a cheater gaming the academy. But, in this case, McAdoo was the true victim. The real scandal is what goes on under the rubric of academic counseling.
It is not news, of course, that universities accept athletes who read at the fifth-grade level or worse; quite often academic counseling is remedial. But McAdoo wasnt in that category. He had been an OK student in high school, and his mother, a schoolteacher, was adamant that he get a college education. He told his recruiters he wanted to major in criminal justice.
Once he got on campus, however, he was quickly informed by his academic counselors that North Carolina didnt have a criminal justice major. According to McAdoo, his counselor picked his major, African-American studies, because it wouldnt interfere with football practice.
Among the first classes he was assigned (as he phrases it) was a Swahili course, an independent studies class taught by the department chairman, Julius Nyangoro. There wasnt any class, McAdoo recalled. You sign up. You write the paper. You get credit. I had never seen anything like it. He never once met his professor. Despite the strange circumstances, he researched and wrote the paper. It was that paper that got him in the trouble with the NCAA.
All the academic counselors knew about the paper classes as they were called and they all steered athletes to them, says Mary Willingham, a former academic counselor at the university.
But when the NCAA went after McAdoo, there was no mention of the phony classes. The school certainly never mentioned them, and as for the NCAA, all it cared about was whether McAdoo had committed academic fraud for getting citation help in a class that never met. McAdoos contention that he had no reason to believe he had done anything wrong, because he had simply done what hed been told to do fell on deaf ears. His college career was sacrificed so that the NCAA could maintain its long-standing pretense that college athletes are supposed to be students first.
The paper classes were eventually exposed by The News & Observer, after which the university asked former Gov. James Martin of North Carolina to conduct an investigation. Martin, who issued his report a few months ago, found that 216 courses were problematic, and that as many as 560 grades had been changed. He laid all the problems at the feet of Nyangoro (who had earlier been allowed to retire), and one department colleague. Martin insisted that the scandal wasnt strictly an athletic one, because non-athletes also took some of the paper classes. Well, maybe.
As for Michael McAdoo, the public humiliation still stings. I had days when I was so depressed, I could barely get out of bed, he told me. He feels that he put his trust in an institution that ultimately betrayed him.
I would still like to get a college degree someday, he said. But not at the University of North Carolina. They just wasted my time.
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Booking a holiday is exciting, but booking a holiday with your partner is even more exciting. The thought of kicking back in a hammock for two, while a barman goes to work with a pestle and mortar so you can clink your Mojitos in the afternoon sun, is enough to make you grit your teeth and deal with the broken washing machine, never-ending email alerts and frequent bickers about who should do the washing up.
A holiday with your man is the remedy to any problem. It's the dock leaf to the nettle sting, the spritz of Lacoste to the odorous blouse, right?
Well, maybe not. The Daily Mail has revealed the results of a survey by travel agent, Ebookers, which has found we argue with our partners while we're thinking about the holiday, booking the holiday and on the holiday. That's a lot of slammed doors and thrown ballet pumps.
They discovered that more than half of couples fail to agree on a destination, for starters. Okay, so he wants to hit Las Vegas and blow money you don't have on a game of poker that he'll inevitably lose because 1. He's not the cool, Ryan Gosling lothario he thinks he is and 2. He's never really played before, unless you include playing for five pence pieces with the guys. You'd rather lap up the Indian sun, and make a la Julia Roberts in Eat, Pray, Love - just without the painful divorce.
I can see how logging onto Expedia and seeing he's bookmarked resorts with pictures of scantily clad casino dancers could cause problems, but let us not forget, this is normal. This is what you'd expect from a guy who thinks wearing a suit from BHS is basically like wearing an Armani, and a woman who wants to 'find herself', or at least tell everyone she has.
Relationship psychologist Jo Hemmings thinks that it's more down to stress, than just a clash of personalities. She says, "The truth is we're working harder than ever before and taking fewer holidays. So, by the time we actually go away, we're exhausted and often irritable – the perfect recipe for arguments." I see where she's coming from; newspapers are always telling us that we're stressed, but are our pre-holiday bickers actually just down to the frustration induced by a slow-loading lastminute.com page and worries about mosquito bites?
The survey also found that women usually blame the rows on drinking a little too much, while men get irritated if their partner starts checking out other men on the beach. This isn't a special spell cast upon us just when we're on a beach in Thailand – they're both common causes for rows in the UK, too. When your man's had a few too many pints and thinks you're eyeing up the 17-year-old lad playing pool? Yeah, we've all been there.
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"I'd love to be among you, but I ain't giving it back," Bragg said. "Every one of you is smarter than me and if I can do it, you should be able to do it holding a concrete block."
Bragg, 54, grew up just a few miles from Jacksonville and achieved fame as a man of the written word, first in newspapers, from The Anniston Star to The New York Times, and later in best-selling novels. Bragg graduated from Jacksonville High School in 1977 and started school at JSU soon after, but he never made it past the first semester.
"All my life I've driven past this place with a certain amount of regret," Bragg said. "Every day after I quit, dropped out or was sent packing, I would drive by here wishing I had stuck it out."
Bragg may not have needed a degree to find professional success, but the JSU graduates who walked away with degrees Friday are betting that they will.
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Parker just returned from an internship at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway. She said she majored in communications with a focus in broadcast and would like to work as a motorsports reporter.
Brittany Fisher-Pinkard received a diploma for completing JSU's nursing program. Fisher-Pinkard, 31, a wife and a mother to four children, received an associate's degree years ago, but came back to JSU to get a bachelors degree.
"I needed it, of course, for the income," Fisher-Pinkard said. "It just didn't work out that I finished in four years."
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From one of my fave Elvis gospels: Stand by me. Sigh.Originally Posted by NightRider
Ok...we have had an easy start - lets see how we go with these ( still not too hard )....
Once again....find the songs that these lyrics are from.....
1. Come on give, make life worth living
2. I want you back in my arms
3. Don't refuse me, say you'll choose me
4. That's when I'm closest to heaven
5. And my friends misunderstand
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From one of my fave Elvis gospels: Stand by me. Sigh.Originally Posted by NightRider
Originally Posted by Cherokee
Sure is cherokee i think i will have to make these a tad harder
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Well, since this was the only one I got, it was hard enough for me!Originally Posted by NightRider
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Hi Cherokee...no..they are all from official releasesOriginally Posted by Cherokee
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Originally Posted by NightRider
Busted! I've been listening to the same few CD's too often
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gives you a good excuse to listen to more Elvis
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1. Scratch My Back
4. Put Your Hand In The Hand
Your pretty good at this minni1Originally Posted by minni1
I will have to think up some real stinkers for the next lot
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minni1 you are such a good one remembering each Elvis song lyrics..
Havs everyone given upon this then
Still No's two and three to get folks
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Has everyone given upon this then
Still No's two and three to get folks
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Ahh, no 2- Give Me The Right
You really are good at this minni1Originally Posted by minni1
One to go....no3.......
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First In LineOriginally Posted by NightRider
I also knew 4 and 5..... Number 1 was on the tip of my tongue.... Now I trying to figure out number 2
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Sure is Unchained.. ..thats another one complete....anyone for more ( you'll probably get more anyhow )Originally Posted by Unchained
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Sure, Chris. Bring 'em on!
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio corrections officials say Ariel Castro who held three women captive in his home for nearly a decade has committed suicide at a state prison facility.
Spokeswoman JoEllen Smith says 53 year old Castro was found hanging in his cell around 9:20 p.m. Tuesday at the Correctional Reception Center in Orient. Prison medical staff performed CPR before Castro was transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The three women disappeared separately between 2002 and 2004, when they were 14, 16 and 20 years old. They escaped May 6, when one of the women broke part of a door and yelled to neighbors for help. Castro was arrested that evening.
Castro was sentenced Aug. 1 to life in prison plus 1,000 years on his guilty plea to 937 counts including kidnapping and rape.
Cleveland kidnap suspect learns sentence today
CLEVELAND (AP) - Ariel Castro learns his sentence today after pleading guilty to 937 counts, including kidnapping, rape, assault and aggravated murder for holding three women captive in a run-down Cleveland home for a decade.
The prosecutor says one captive's diaries document the horrific physical and sexual abuse that Castro subjected the women to on a daily basis. Castro could get as much as life in prison plus 1,000 years.
Cleveland kidnap suspect pleads not guilty to more charges
CLEVELAND (AP) - The Cleveland man accused of holding three women captive in his home for over a decade has pleaded not guilty to additional charges.
An expanded indictment charges Ariel Castro with 512 counts of kidnapping and 446 counts of rape, among other crimes.
Castro was arrested in May after the women escaped to freedom.
Kidnap Victim Asks Not to Be Left Alone on 1st Night Home with Family
On her first night at home in a decade, relatives of freed kidnapping victim Gina DeJesus huddled around her, sleeping on inflatable mattresses in their living room so the young woman would not have to sleep in an upstairs bedroom similar to the one where she spent much of her captivity, her mother told ABC News in an exclusive interview with David Muir.
DeJesus, 23, was reunited with her family Wednesday after nearly 10 years spent as the alleged prisoner of Ariel Castro, a man her mother knew for years.
For years after DeJesus' abduction, Castro, who grew up in the same community as the young woman's mother, Nancy Ruiz, would offer the family his support.
As recently as last year, Castro, 52, asked Ruiz, "How are you doing?" never indicating he was allegedly keeping her daughter a captive in his Cleveland home just miles from where she lived.
Ruiz said DeJesus told her that she and two other women, Amanda Berry, 27, and Michelle Knight, 30, were kept chained in the basement of the basement. Later on, they were allowed upstairs and kept in two separate bedrooms for much of the time.
DeJesus and Knight were often kept in one bedroom. Berry and her daughter, 6, whom she gave birth to while in captivity, were held in a second room, Ruiz said.
The young women were warned there was an alarm system and that it would go off if they tried to escape, Ruiz added.
The women were freed on Monday, when Berry screamed for help from behind a locked door, alerting neighbors who helped kick down the door and called police.
Ruiz said Castro would take Berry's daughters on outings to the park and to church, though the women were never permitted to leave the property themselves.
Berry's litte girl was never told the real names of the other women in the house because of fears she might reveal those names in public and get Castro in trouble, Ruiz said.
Castro would bring the women food, which they would cook. Sometimes he would bring them McDonald's food.
He bought the young women clothes from a local store, Ruiz said, and DeJesus would use the fabric from the clothes to make new outfits, once changing a skirt into a pair of capri pants.
Castro was arraigned today in an Ohio court on charges of kidnapping and rape. Bond was set at $8 million. He did not enter a plea.
One Cleveland, OH man charged in kidnapping case
CLEVELAND (AP) - Authorities have filed kidnapping and rape charges against a Cleveland man arrested after three women missing for about a decade were found alive at his home.
Homeowner Ariel Castro was charged Wednesday. Brothers Pedro and Onil Castro are held but face no charges right now.
The men are in custody and can't be reached for comment. Their brother-in-law has said the family is "totally shocked" after hearing about the women at the home.
The three women disappeared separately between 2002 and 2004 and were found Monday after one of them screamed for help to escape and contacted police.
Police say ropes and chains were among evidence collected inside the house. A city councilman says the women were subjected to prolonged sexual and psychological abuse and suffered miscarriages.
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